Foxface / Rabbitfish eating

[grahamsn]

What is the best food for these fish. I have kept one for a very long time and ate everything. Then all of a sudden died. I had the water tested at the time and it was in great shape. I bought another one Fox this time and he went through and cleaned out every piece of algae in the tank and would not eat anything after that. I tried giving it algae from the sump but was not enough. It ended up dead. I make my own food and it would not really eat that.

What works the best for them to eat and be fat and happy?

 

[luke33]

Wow, thats crazy. My rabbit is the most voracious of all my fish. It will eat algae off rocks and any flake, pellet or frozen food i add in there. No matter herbivoire, omni or carni. What all have you tried feeding it? Mine will eat shrimp, krill.....you name it.

 

[grahamsn]

The food I make which every fish loved, but the fox consist of: Formula one, fish, shrimp, squid, clam, mussels, nori sheets, a little garlic and carrot juice. All blended into a nice paste. I want to get another fox, but so far I am 0/2.

 

[jezzeaepi]

I have found that the red algae sheets are greatly preferred by both tangs and rabbitfish. If I put in a piece of green algae, it might sit there all day, but if I put in some red algae, it will be gone in under an hour. This was true of my coral rabbitfish, foxface rabbitfish, blue tang, and chevron tang.

 

[brandyrb]

Mine ate seaweed selects (green, red, brown), grape caulerpa, hair algae, mysis shrimp, frozen formula one and frozen formula two.

 

[grahamsn]

A good to know. Where do you get the red sheets? Maybe I just got two unlucky fish that was doomed from the start.

 

[gotfish]

My scribbled seems to eat just about everything except the red algae I feed the tangs. It doesn't even look at it. Once a month I switch out a rock from my fuge just to clean the hair algae off and move copepods into the display and he goes crazy and doesn't leave the rock till it's picked clean.

 

[jag3534]

We just got a scribbled last weekend at Barrier's sale. So far he eats julian sprung green sheets, red and green omega one veggie sheets, and the kelp and formula one flakes i put in for the other fish. He doesn't seem to pick at the rocks though. He's cute we call him Bunny. hehe. He's a total scaredy cat.

 

[gotfish]

Mine is a total ham. I have to take 25% more pics because he always seems to come flying in at the last second. If I put my head near the tank to look at something, he gets right in front of my face and will stay there no matter where I move.

 

[grahamsn]

It sounds like these fish are kind of a hit and miss when it comes to food.

 

[swissgaurd]

i find the red nori sheets much better as they are not roasted like the green.
fish take to it much better.

i feed nori everyday

 

[cookie]

Mine is a total ham. I have to take 25% more pics because he always seems to come flying in at the last second. If I put my head near the tank to look at something, he gets right in front of my face and will stay there no matter where I move.

Mine does this too! He is an attention hog!